skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get the valuation of the country done by the same individual who valued Trump's Mar-a-Lago at $18 million and they should be able to close the deal without breaking a fiscal sweat. As a warning to future Danes-at-large, the language of legoland does take some getting used to. Imagine trying to speak Norwegian with a hot potato stuck in the back of your throat and you're getting close. If you don't know Norwegian or Swedish just imagine trying to cough up that potato one it has descended into your windpipe for a somewhat less accurate but still close approximation.

Just keep in mind the old adage on paying Danegeld: if you pay the Danegeld you'll never get rid of the Dane.
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New technology in the airport is incredibly scary. I recently flew between the United States and Canada and it is mind boggling how trivial passports are already becoming. I began by looking into a camera on a kiosk, where as soon as my face was recognized, I walked up to the CBP officer and he verified my identify with a quick look at my passport and ticket. I don't see the passport lasting much longer, at last in the US, Canada, and Europe.
If it's coalescing learning in realtime across all user/sessions, that's more constant than you're maybe giving it credit for. I'm not sure if GPT4o and friends are actually built that way though.
Passports can die when they merge the passport with my drivers license, at least here in the US.

It would be great if we had a universal ID program. Even better if that program also replaced Social Security numbers.

Alas, it'll likely never happen in my life time.
Yesterday ChatGPT helped me to elaborate a skincare routine for my wife with multiple serums and creams that she received for Christmas.
She and I had no idea when to apply, how to combine or when to avoid combination of some of those products.

I could have google it myself in the evenings and had the answer in a few days of research, but with o1 in a 15min session my wife had had a solid weekly routine, the reasoning about those choices and academic papers with research about those products. (Obviously she knows a lot about skincare in general, so she had the capacity to recognize any wrong recommendation).

Nothing game changer, but is great to save lots of time in this kind of tasks.
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Personal freedoms decreased during a global pandemic. Also water is found to be wet.
> This is all much more convenient in its WYSIWYG interface than manually planning and coding these figures in LaTeX, as had previously been the standard way to create them for mathematical papers.

While I'm all for such convenience tools, I thought HN would be the place to find sympathy for the idea behind tikz-cd and its predecessors like xypic, that it's easier to write code that can be easily reproduced and programmatically manipulated than it is to try to draw (by hand, or with something like xfig), which was previously to that the standard. I guess preferences are cyclical!
I appreciate the candid response. I have noticed there is a class of very intelligent, well-educated adult learners who have nevertheless been unexposed to software education until adulthood who are now looking for a career change. I've found that there is a lot of difficulty initially with combining abstractions, i.e., "a variable holds a value, a function is also a value, a function is also a thing that sometimes takes values and sometimes returns values, therefore a variable can hold a function, a function can be passed as an argument to a function, and a function can return a function".

Reasonable adults might have reasonable questions about those facts, such as, "what does any of that have to do with a computer?"

To my embarrassment, I realized they were completely right and my early exposure to software made me overlook some extremely important context.

So for these adults, the expectation of struggling through a few semesters/years of javascript is not an optimal learning route.

My hope was that working from the logic gate level up would at least provide the intuition about the relationship between computers (Turing Machines, really, not modern computers) and software.

However, I think based on your excellent critique I will be sure to include a unit on how "educational architectures are very different from modern architectures and I may have ruined your brain by teaching you this" haha.
Added to which we already have tools that are great at finding syntax errors. They're called compilers.
It would be a nice start if the EU could stop inking passports on the way in and out as well as computer recording it all. Such a waste of time and ink
I wonder if this can just mean whenever open ai generates 100 billion in revenue after expenses, or whether the ai system has to create something on its own or otherwise manage to generate that profit based on its own "ingenuity". Former is more likely but latter more in line with the agi spirit
Stealth airplanes might have the radar cross section of a bird but they don't have the same flight characteristics (altitude, speed.) If you can manage to see it, you won't confuse it for a bird.
An example of oxidation of iron in rocks can be seen in the Hawaiian island of Kauai. This island is 5 million years old and is heavily eroded. The dark black volcanic rocks typical of the younger islands have turned bright red, for example in Waimea Canyon State Park.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Canyon_State_Park
> it's _extremely_ useful for lawyers,

How so? How are you using LLMs to practice law? Genuinely curious.
> This is the most sustained combat that the U.S. Navy has seen since World War II — easily, no question

I have no drone in this fight, but your characterization of this quote is nonsensical.

The quote does not imply that the threats are closely comparable. It merely states that the current conflict is the "most sustained" since a past event which was obviously much more sustained.

I have stood on my roof and looked upward, and thought that it's kind of interesting that the next-highest solid object from my position is a plane, a satellite, or the moon.

I am not intending a meaningful comparison of the altitudes of houses and planes (or satellites or moons) when I do so.
Yes my work pays for several of them. I don't particularly enjoy coding so believe me I have sincerely tried to get this to work.
Syntax checking is not an “AI” problem - use any compiler or linter.
> It's enabled two specific applications I’ve built which wouldn’t be possible at single-person scale.

I'd love to hear more about how you utilised AI for this.

Personally I'm struggling to find it more useful than a slightly fancy code completion tool
Anyone who says AI is useless never had to do the old method of cobbling together git and ffmpeg commands from StackOverflow answers.

I have no interest in learning the horrible unintuitive UX of every CLI I interact with, I'd much rather just describe in English what I want and have the computer figure it out for me. It has practically never failed me, and if it does I'll know right away and I can fall back to the old method of doing it manually. For now it's saving me so much time with menial, time-wasting day-to-day tasks.
What I do is put the Anki widget quite front-and-center on my phone. Whenever I absentmindedly unlock my phone, the red squircle containing a positive number activates my monkey brain and I want to get it to 0.
I am in Amsterdam right now and yes, I have yet to encounter a Dutch person that doesn’t speak very fluent English.
I agree with all of what you said except this:

> idiot savants with vast and unreliable intelligence.

Remember, intelligence !== knowledge. These LLMs indeed have vast and unreliable knowledge banks.
This one is weird though. In a touch of irony the guy was aggressively anti-immigration.
People also thought the Segway was a useless dead end and they were right.
Try being a TA to freshmen CS majors; a good 1/3 change majors because they can't handle the syntax strictness coupled with their generally untrained logical mind. They convince themselves it is "too hard" and their buddies over in the business school are having a heck of a lot of fun throwing parties...
One of the core tenet of technology is that it makes the job less consuming of a person resources (time, strength,…). While I’ve read a lot of claims, I’ve yet to see someone make a proper argument on how LLMs can be such a tool.

> A group of individuals adept with use of such an idiot savant enhanced environment would be incredibly capable. They'd be a force unseen in human civilization before today

More than the people who landed someone on the moon?
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> convoluted expensive google search

Interesting, I'm the opposite now. Why would I click a couple links to read a couple (verbose) blog posts when I can read a succinct LLM response. If I have low confidence in the quality of the response then I supplement with Google search.

I feel near certain that I am saving time with this method. And the output is much more tuned to the context and framing of my question.

Hah, take for example my last query in ChatGPT:

> Are there any ancient technologies that when discovered furthered modern understanding of its field?

ChatGPT gave some great responses, super fast. Google also provides some great results (though some miss the mark), but I would need to parse at least three different articles and condense the results.

To be fair, ChatGPT gives some bad responses too.. But both an LLM and Google search should be used in conjunction to perform a search at the same time.

Use LLMs as breadth-first search, and Google as depth-first search.
or it could be fintech startups like Revolut and Wise. You know stuff people actually use that is actual competition for banks. A normal person does not use crypto just to exchange money from GDP-EUR for a vacation trip.
My example is precisely about practical convenience. If I try to do something very normal in Terminal.app, namely use a text editor with a theme, it will look like garbage.
Its very likely any given startup will not be attacked by nation state backed hackers continually, 24/7 365. I don't think this is off base at all.
This gets mentioned a lot but has it been used in practice? How would you pass objects and methods etc to the scripting language? Autogenerated C headers?
9 months ago (things may have changed) someone showed simple time series models outperforming Chronos.

https://github.com/Nixtla/nixtla/tree/main/experiments/amazo...

In domains where there is inherent randomness in the process, simple (ensemble) models tend to outperform complex ones. Nonlinear models can capture nonlinear patterns but they also tend to fit noise.

Neural network models have been shown to work really well on text, images, sound etc, but these types of data have no inherent randomness in them. A piece of text is a piece of text.

Whereas most time series are usually trying to forecast quantities that have complex unmeasured causality, like natural gas prices. Past behavior is no guarantee of future behavior. Capturing the nonlinear behavior in the past better can actually degrade future performance. While simple models tend to be more robust because they tend to not overly bias towards any one trend.
So, what exactly should we be doing in regards to AI/LLMs? Investing in those companies? Working in the field?
I wonder how paperless passports would work for folks with multiple passports.
kitty has a nicely formatted config which lists all settings along with their default values and a very detailed description of each one. It's pretty much the same as having a GUI. Maybe Ghostty can adopt this?
Yes, you are correct. They provide knowledge and the human is the operator of the intelligence portion.
Does Ghostty support TiteInhibit? The docs say "if xterm does something we should do it", but I don't see any mention of "tite".
If you take all men and all women, that's probably true. By the same token, men are also more likely to die on the front lines of a war, but that doesn't mean that you're safer there as a woman, it means there are far fewer of them there!

In order to come to your conclusion ("you are safer if you are a woman"), you'd have to control for where the crime takes place, who committed it, and why. For just one example: gang-related violence is a large category of crime that affects mostly men because mostly men are involved in gangs. But that category of violence does not contribute to the risk of most of us here falling victims to crimes because most of us here are not involved with gangs, so that falsely skews the numbers towards men as victims.

The real question you have to answer to come to your conclusion is if the typical woman on HN is safer than the typical man on HN.
It's "fake" lawyers, so I doubt they have deep pockets.
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When the penalty for frivolous and fake dmca takedowns is basically non-existent, it practically is.
That's the underappreciated truth of the computer revolution in practice.

At scale, computers didn't change the world because they did things that were already being computed, more quickly.

They changed the world because they decreased the cost of computing so much that it could be used for an entirely new class of problems. (That computing cost previously precluded its use on)
And who decides a claim was fraudulent? Historically, the fraudulent claims have gotten away with it while the target has at least had to remove the video or at worst had their accounts banned. Yet, nothing happened to the fraudster.
Tough shit, you shouldn’t have sent the three fraudulent ones then. It’s all in the terms of service you have agreed to.
It’s the same softmax classifier
Hi, many years ago I used HackerRank to practice, before I got my first job as a programmer. I always thought it had nicer UI than leetcode. For practicing a new language I now mostly use exercism.io, because it allows me to run everything locally and solve problems however I want.

I have a question for you: What's unique about HackerRank? Why choose HackerRank over any of the alternatives? Is it really just leetcode with better UI?

Thanks to this post I logged in for the first time in a long time, and solved a medium difficulty challenge. Here are my impressions:

It felt pretty easy. The UI looks pretty nice. Nice dark theme. It felt a bit difficult to find problems I was interested in. I can compare with different solutions on both leetcode and exercism, but I couldn't find that in HackerRank. I guess that's what the discussion tab is for?

Good luck! :)
The verified npm will be like the verified pypi: "this thing was built on github, but we actually have no fucking clue if it's a bitcoin miner or a legit library"
So you mean, lurid dreams?
There is a vast difference between arguments like "Phones have been accused of ruining romantic interaction and addicting us to mindless chatter" and "current AI has problems generating accurate information and can't replace researching things by hand for complicated or niche topics and there is reason to believe that the current architecture may not solve this problem"

That aside optimist are also not always right, otherwise we would have cold fusion already and have a base on mars.
This guy was from Saudi Arabia, not Syria.
They would be capable of landing someone on the moon, if they chose to pursue that goal, and had the finances to do so. And they'd do so with fewer people too.
The US is not at war with the Houthis, or with Iran.

The US is maintaining a level of conflict, with the intent of not allowing escalation.

You might have a point that the US is politically hesitant to fully engage, should the time come. But that time has not come.

It's better for everyone in the world, if the US acts as hall monitor and gets a few paper airplanes thrown at them from around a corner. If and when the US chooses to exterminate the threat, the global repercussions will be enormous.

Sacrificing lots of expensive equipment and some red-blooded American kids is the price you pay to avoid global disaster. It's a terrible trade, but it's the burden of being the biggest kid in school, which we enjoy for unrelated reasons.
I'm surprised the US doesn't carry bigger drones with butterfly nets.
Except for those lawyers who rely on it for case law eg https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-yor...
> So yes, LLMs will make mistakes, but humans do too

Are you using LLMs though? Because pretty much all of these systems are fairly normal classifiers, what would've been called Machine Learning 2-3 years ago.

The "AI hype is real because medical AI is already in use" argument (and it's siblings) perform a rhetorical trick by using two definitions of AI. "AI (Generative AI) hype is real because medical AI (ML classifiers) is already in use" is a non-sequitur.

Image classifiers are very narrow intelligences, which makes them easy to understand and use as tools. We know exactly what their failure modes are and can put hard measurements on them. We can even dissect these models to learn why they are making certain classifications and either improve our understanding of medicine or improve the model.

...

Basically none of this applies to Generative AI. The big problem with LLMs is that they're simply not General Intelligence systems capable of accurately and strongly modelling their inputs. e.g. Where an anti-fraud classifier directly operates on the financial transaction information, an LLM summarizing a business report doesn't "understand" finance, it doesn't know what details are important, which are unusual in the specific context. It just stochastically throws away information.
multiple lawyer friends I know are using chatgpt (and custom gptees) for contract reviews. They upload some guidelines as knowledge, then upload any new contract for validation. Allegedly replaces hours of reading. This is a large portion of the work, in some cases. Some of them also use it to debate a contract, to see if there's anything they overlooked or to find loopholes. LLMs are extremely good at that kind of constrained creativity mode where they _have_ to produce something (they suck at saying "I dont know" or "no"), so I guess it works as sort of a "second brain" of sorts, for those too.

There's even reported cases of entire legislations being written with LLMs already [1]. I'm sure there's thousands more we haven't heard about - the same way researchers are writing papers w/ LLMs w/o disclosing it

[1] https://olhardigital.com.br/2023/12/05/pro/lei-escrita-pelo-...
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I don't mind my passport lasting longer due to fewer stamps. What I don't like is that more and more countries require pre-registration. They can add as many questions as they want and the form can be as crappy as it needs to be.

Hopefully this will be fully automated at check in though. They already have all the info there, don't ask me twice. Send me an email if you won't accept me into your country. It can have its upsides.
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It's the stuff that immediately follows which is the actual blasphemy:

>We’re sort of on the verge of the Houthis being able to mount the kinds of attacks that the U.S. can’t stop every time, and then we will start to see substantial damage.

Remember that Arleigh Burke destroyers and other ships equipped with AEGIS are supposedly the best interceptors in the world. Remember that USN CSGs are supposed to instill absolute fear and execute absolute destruction when required. Admitting that the Houthis can (and will) penetrate and defeat that is all but admitting the US Navy can't handle any more of this, that the Houthis and the financiers behind them are peer enemies if not superior.

The only thing I wasn't expecting when I originally read that was that the "substantial damage" ended up coming from the US Navy themselves. Who needs enemies with friendlies like this.
My guess is they'll be going around (on the nonprofits dime) soliciting contributions (to the for-profit)
I have witnessed no evidence that would support this claim. The only contribution of LLMs to mathematics is in being useful to Terry Tao: they're not capable of solving novel orbital mechanics problems (except through brute-force search, constrained sufficiently that you could chuck a uniform distribution in and get similar outputs). That's before you get into any of the engineering problems.
FRAND registry of copyrighted works. The registry would be provably connected to the creator, the royalty rate would be published ahead of time based on use. Infringement could be seen as accidental at first instance and royalty rates charged after discovery. Copyrighted work not registered? Then you are free to attempt your own single distributor network without legal protection, you can always register it some time after you fail. Charge the creator the royalty rate (or some fraction) they define in taxes to the registry so they don't set ridiculously high rates. Could also charge maintenance fees to automatically lower the rates that are so high that nobody wants to distribute at that price, heck the entire copyright limit could just be replaced with some compounding increase in maintenance fees over time. If the work is really successful they may maintain it longer, but unsuccessful works might just become moneypits very quickly.

In this case, the identity of the legal department would be directly connected to the infringing content found in the video which YouTube would have access to to verify. It also wouldn't be a takedown but a royalty demand or they could have registered "Let's play" as not requiring royalties. In principle though, YouTube or even the creator could just do all of this upfront.

That's my idea, in the vein of, "We have the technology to do this better."